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Hatchman - great pic from Flinders looking toward Cape Schanck with Big Left and Cyrils in the foreground!

Sounds like a fantastic plan to take a year off. I travelled overseas for about year and half - best time ever. You can do it really cheaply - a round the world airfare is the go. I spent a lot of time working in San Francisco - surfing Santa Cruz etc. I reckon if you are going to surf the States yo...

Anglesea is a great little town - only 37 km from Geelong!

I was also interested in shipping a board to the states and got a response from Mapcargo - see the email they sent me a few months ago - Hello , It would be my pleasure to help you out with this quote. Pls provide complete address of where the board would be picked up in Australia and also the compl...

Hey Rocky,

My be its your technique and not the boards eh?

Could be that you need to practise the drop knee turn - really push it around -

Maybe Wanderer or Longygrom can help in this department???

cheers

Interesting - I was cleaning out my book case and came across the No 5 issue ( August 1984) of Australian Waves magazine with a picture of a very young Tom Carroll on the front cover - wearing a red and blue wetsuit riding a board that looks 4 inches thick! With articles on Peter Drouyn - Man of Vis...

El Cabron!!!

Hi Sharky - Welcome to OZ!! If you don't have a car I think the Manly or Freshwater area would be good place to live if you need to drag a longboard around - central to most public transport if you need to get into the city. When you get a car - have a look at Collaroy Plateau - for its great views,...

I wouldn't touch a Jackson board with a beanpole - ha ha ha

See below for Ricky Grigg's account of wave measuring...posted this a few years ago for another similar thread....... HOW TO MEASURE A WAVE Written by Ricky Grigg (ultimate big wave & surf legend) as printed in the Surfers Journal volume 12, number 1, 2003 Ricky Grigg’s words…………….. Once upon a time...

Well, Longy you are so far wrong on that one - and shouldn't you be out in the surf instead hacking around in your bedroom! GSI indeed!

Hey KK, I really like you!!! Ever since you came on board - ha ha - with your raw, hard edge comments in the Narrabeen locals thread I have liked your style - keep at it - it makes me laugh. Artaud type theatre at its best!!! Keep stirring, keep annoying, keep lambasting - God I love it!!! It's all ...

..and beside that Wanderer you are a bloody good surfer.
I have always enjoyed watching your butt wiggle in the surf......and beside that you are also a wave hog!

1983 - Living in San Francisco when the Grateful Dead were still hanging out in the Haight Ashbury and everyone looked like Willie Nelson and the hippies were stoned on 'Humbolt County Gold' (including me) - we surfed under the Golden Gate Bridge - F@#@##ing amazin..... http://http://www.panoramio.c...

Mr Baldy, great name for him - started surfing his 12ft longboard out at Queenscliff a few years ago with his 12 yr old son. He comes from the North Rocks area? I got to know him a bit - he is friendly and pleasant but oh so focussed on catching every wave. He disappeared from Queensie on South swel...

I was passing by The island surf shop at Smith's beach the other day - went in for a look and mentioned to the assistant that I had a bashed up singlefin Keyo longboard for sale - and he looked at me aghast - heaven's sake I don't think he really even knew what a longboard looked like ....'too cold ...

Hey littlewalb - yes indeed the Pines has had a few good waves lately - I scored a few good ones on my longboard - nice nose riding and drop knee wave - easy. I agree about the cold water - I find myself living on Phillip Island after surfing Sydney for 10 years and now have to wear booties in the w...

Mr Hatchman - what a terrible pic of meanos - no justice at all this morning eh? I wouldn't have bothered with that onshore rubbish! Now Flynns this am was clean as a whistle all be it very small - now there is a wave! Tuesday arvo and Wed am will be great in the Westerport area - I will be there an...